Limbaugh: Media Only Ignores Benghazi Because Fox and I Cover It

Rush Limbaugh may have discovered the perfect way to get the mainstream media to dedicate more coverage to the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi: stop talking about it. On his radio show Friday, Limbaugh said that the only reason the “drive-by media” is ignoring the Benghazi story is because he and Fox News are interested in it.

“They’re not interested in this at all,” Limbaugh said of the media. And those who think there is something damning about the Obama administration within the story “want to cover it up.” He went on to describe the mainstream media as being made up of a lot “stupid,” “uninformed” people “with a lot of prejudice.”

“And there are a lot of reporters who will discount Benghazi simply because of who is interested in it,” Limbaugh continued. “If Fox is interested in it, it automatically is nothing. If I’m interested in it, it doesn’t rate.”

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“Because Fox and me, all we want to get Obama,” Limbaugh said, embracing what he believes to be the liberal mentality. He described the media as partly made up of reporters “working with the regime to cover [Benghazi] up” and partly “activists” who “fear the truth coming out” and “are going to do everything they can to protect Obama, including trying to lay the blame off on Republicans.”

By Limbaugh’s logic, if he really wants everyone else to start talking more about Benghazi, it might be time for him to give the issue up.

Listen to audio below, via The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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